174 Conn. App. 14 - State v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Following the enactment of P.A. 15-84 ... the defendant is now eligible for parole and can no longer claim that he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment, or its equivalent, without parole. The eighth amendment, as interpreted by Miller , does not prohibit a court from imposing a sentence of life imprisonment with the opportunity for parole for a juvenile homicide offender, nor does it require the court to consider the mitigating factors of youth before imposing such a sentence.... [Thus] the court properly dismissed the defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 177 Conn. App. 242 - State v. Rivera

2. “[u]pon reconsideration, we are constrained by Delgado to conclude that the trial court properly dismissed the defendant's motion to correct an illegal sentence and that its judgment should be affirmed”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 177 Conn. App. 242 - State v. Rivera

3. “the possibility of eighty-one and one-half years incarceration with a mandatory minimum sentence of twenty-five years”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 177 Conn. App. 242 - State v. Rivera